Month November 2019
Rabbi Yehuda Meshi-Zahav, the founder and chairman of ZAKA spoke to Arutz Sheva recently about a painful topic – suicide in Israel, including the Chareidi community. “The numbers speak for themselves. Read more on Yeshiva World News
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexicans reacted Wednesday with anger to U.S. President Donald Trump’s pledge to designate Mexican drug cartels as terrorist organizations. Mexican officials and experts don’t fear that Trump will send killer drones into Mexico. Such drone strikes… Continue Reading →
On Wednesday morning, the Sanzer Rebbe was menachem avel the Ohana family, who lost two small children in a fire in Netanya, which also destroyed their home, a B’Chadrei Chareidim report said. Read more on Yeshiva World News
Massachusetts became the first state to ban the sale of flavored tobacco and vaping products, including menthol cigarettes, after the Republican governor signed a bill Wednesday that responds to recent deaths linked to e-cigarettes and attempts to reduce their appeal… Continue Reading →
WASHINGTON (AP) — A super PAC formed to support Cory Booker’s Democratic presidential campaign is shutting down. The group’s founder, San Francisco lawyer Steve Phillips, indicated in a news release Wednesday that Dream United had struggled to raise money. Booker,… Continue Reading →
Two Jewish boys were harassed in Crown Heights Monday evening, as a wave of hate-crime incidents continues to plague New York City. Two yeshivah students, 14 and 15 years old,… Read more » The post Teens Harass 2 Yeshivah Students… Continue Reading →
(JTA) — The effort to impeach President Donald Trump is a “Jew coup,” a Florida pastor known for his anti-Semitic conspiracy theories said. Rick Wiles also said during a broadcast Friday on his TruNews YouTube channel that the Jews also… Continue Reading →
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s son, Avner Netanyahu, got a haircut at the barber next to the Mir – Barber Tzion – who has a good reputation and is known as the barber for Mir bochurim, and then in a surprise… Continue Reading →
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is on course to win a majority of 68 in parliament at the Dec. 12 election, according to a model from pollsters YouGov that accurately… Read more » The post U.K. PM Johnson on Course… Continue Reading →
The U.S. economy grew at a moderate 2.1% annual rate over the summer, slightly faster than first estimated, the government said Wednesday. But many economists say they think growth is slowing sharply in the current quarter. Read more on Yeshiva… Continue Reading →
NEW YORK (JNS) — For many of the attendees at last week’s “Never Is Now” conference in New York, which was sponsored by the Anti-Defamation League, the global and, perhaps, geopolitical impacts on the rise in anti-Semitism were front and… Continue Reading →
President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed into law legislation backing protesters in Hong Kong despite angry objections from Beijing, at a time when Trump is seeking a deal to end… Read more » The post Trump Approves Legislation Backing Hong… Continue Reading →
The World Health Organization says cases of measles are continuing to spike globally, with multiple large outbreaks being reported across Africa, Europe, Latin America and the Middle East. In an update on Wednesday, the U.N. Read more on Yeshiva World… Continue Reading →
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump was briefed on the whistleblower complaint about his dealings with Ukraine before the White House released nearly $400 million in military aid to Kyiv, officials say, shedding new light on events that triggered the… Continue Reading →
Moving to offset the impact his trade war has had on rural America, President Donald Trump has bypassed Congress to send some $20 billion in aid to farmers, mostly going… Read more » The post Trump Dispenses Billions of Dollars… Continue Reading →
The U.S. Navy announced on Wednesday it would scrap plans to carry out reviews of three Navy SEALs that could have led to their ouster from the elite force, after… Read more » The post Three More Navy SEALs Spared… Continue Reading →
The village of Woodridge, N.Y., has elected an Orthodox man to its Board of Trustees. Moshe Chaim Weinberg won one of the two available seats to the village’s four-member board.… Read more » The post Orthodox Man Elected to Woodridge… Continue Reading →
A ledger documenting the actions of a Beis Din in Bergen-Belsen following its liberation was recently discovered for the first time, Ynet reported on Monday. The ledger, containing over 100 pages of cramped handwriting, was the first documentation of the… Continue Reading →
Eleven years ago, Shea Rubenstein’s debut album, Ohavti, struck a chord with fans of in the Jewish music world. “Tick Tock” is a fan favorite, but the song that resonated most with listeners was “Window in Heaven,” a moving tribute… Continue Reading →